If I had to rate Monday’s weather, I would certainly give it a 10 hands down. Clear skies, light northwest breezes and afternoon temperatures around 80 degrees. How perfect is that? And right at textbook averages for the date.
To be fair for those who enjoy the hotter weather, I’ll forecast a high near 90 degrees today, so there you go. That would be number 27 for the year, I believe. The rest of the week is split between comfortable highs and not so comfortable.
If forecast charts are accurate, we drop to 80 degrees Wednesday and Thursday and then at 90 degrees or better Friday and Saturday, with our first east wind event of the fall season. That means hot temperatures well into the 90s if it develops and extremely low humidity. Tinder-dry conditions.
If we did register two more 90-degree highs later in the week we would tie the record for the most 90-degree days in the season with 29. Probably not the type of record we like to succeed.
Vancouver is running nearly 5 degrees above average so far this month. Having lows in the 60s ups the averages. We have had two nights in the mid-50s — all above normal for early September. Looks like the warm trend of August continues to follow us into this month.
Things are so dry right now. I walked through a field of brown grass the other day and saw my first grasshoppers. I thought I was being attacked although they were not as large as those in the “Jurassic World” film.
We have endured a rather warm summer; it is nothing like other areas of the West. My brother who lives in Phoenix called me the other day. He said it is unbearably hot with highs between 105-115 degrees in the valley. And that is after all the monsoon rains and resulting flash floods. He mentioned a crazy fast-moving haboob (dust storm) that went through Friday evening. You were basically trapped in your dwelling. Hmm — no thanks, brother.
That hot weather in the desert Southwest may push northward next week and we could jump back into the 90s next week. Oh boy, buckle up.
